A City Education: When Students Give Back to the Community
In our A City Education series, two City Year corps members share their experiences working as tutors and mentors in schools in hopes of closing the achievement gap and ending the dropout crisis.
In college, my roommates and I dumped any loose change from our pockets and wallets into a communal piggy bank. By the end of the school year, we’d gathered enough for food during finals week. It was a nice treat considering we rarely stopped to think about how a few cents here and there could really add up to something.
The 330 students I work with as a City Year corps member at P.S. 50 in East Harlem, New York, have set a much higher bar. They spent the month of November collecting change for their community as part of the annual